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#278208 - 08/13/06 08:54 PM
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My husband has been living with IBS for over a year. We just discovered this website. His doctors ran all tests multiple times before coming up with IBS-D. He is at the point of not wanting to eat, extremely fatigue, low energy and very depressed. He has lost 30 pounds. We have tried several of the suggestions with some luck but it still is hit or miss. Any other suggestions? Looking for some normalacy in our lives. 
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I would approach the diet laid out on this website not as a collection of suggestions, but as one plan, to follow or not. It can take a long time (many months for some people) to really stabilize, but some results come much faster than that. If you want to explain what's working and what's not, you might find some suggestions here, but until you try the entire diet, completely, for a good bit of time, you can't really know what's working and what's not.
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jaime
ibs-a (mostly d) // vegetarian
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We are trying to follow the book as best as we can. We have done the supplements ( I don't know why the dr's didn't tell us about calcuim. ) We have eliminated trigger foods. Basically, my husband is eating bread, rice, pasta and chicken. We have tried other foods but they send him in a tailspin. Caffine and alcohol are also gone from his diet. He is now drinking peppermint tea. Our big question is how to deal with no energy and extreme fatigue. Our lives ( including our 5 year old ) revolves around this syndrome. Any help is appreciated.
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The "Breaking the Cycle" diet, which is only SF, should only be used for three days at most. After that you have to start carefully incorporating protein, SF vegetables, and easy-to-handle IF. The protein and vitamin-rich fruits & vegetables should help with fatigue. His problems won't clear up immediately, but a few days of Breaking the Cycle should help him start to stabilize. A Soluble Fiber supplement is also crucial - since you have to gradually work your way up to a high dosage, it can take a while for that to help, but once it does it's invaluable.
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jaime
ibs-a (mostly d) // vegetarian
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It also might help to repost your question (although maybe making it more specific, if you can) on the "IBS Diet" board. The fitness board doesn't get as much traffic.
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jaime
ibs-a (mostly d) // vegetarian
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Have you checked out the information on this site about hypnosis for IBS? Diet alone is often not enough to reach stability - hypnosis has been proven to help, as have anti-depressants. Stress and anxiety will cause attacks, so they need to be addressed.
--AC
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Re: Help needed
#279050 - 08/19/06 04:18 PM
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Miso
Reged: 04/20/06
Posts: 559
Loc: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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has he had the colonoscopy etc before the doc said ibs-d?
this is super important as i just had a man who was sure, as was his doc it was ibs and at my urging his wife him get the colonoscopy and it was actually colon cancer, so if you haven't, please get all the tests done for chrohn's, colonoscopy and celiac disease. and yes, repost on the diet board, you will get waaaay more responses there.
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